On August 10, 2015, history was made on the International Space Station when astronauts sampled fresh red romaine lettuce, the first food to be grown, harvested and eaten in space. On August 12, 2015, we reported the news here as a blog post titled Astronauts Eat Space-Grown Food for the First Time. Mission 9 student researchers interested in seed germination studies should read that post, which includes video footage of the history-making meal, as well as video footage of SSEP student teams reporting on Mission 5 and 6 seed germination experiments at the SSEP National Conference.

Glenn PenkoffLidbeck, a Community Program Co-Director in Mission 9 community East Lyme, CT, just sent the following email:

This link [below] has an excellent 3-min. video showing how NASA is learning about germinating seeds in microgravity conditions. Might be useful for SSEP introduction (a little technical for lower grades, but still offers some great info which students can build on).